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None of the authors above referred to mention the fpur on 

 the wing ; but we may conclude that, as it is feen in all the 

 "others, this is not without it. 



Inhabits Brafil, 



5. Parra variabilis, Lin. Syjl. i. p. 260. 4. 



VARIABLE J. Le Chirurgien varie, Brif. Orn, v. p. 129. 5* 



Le Jacana varie, Buf. Oif. viii. p. 192. 



du Brefil, PL Enl. 846. 



Spur- winged Water Hen, Ed-K. pi. 48. — Bauer. Cuicm. p. 173. 

 Br. Muf. Lev. Muf. 



Xiscuif tion. r ENGTH nine inches. Bill fourteen lines long, orange 

 yellow : on the forehead a flap of red fkin, laying back on 

 the head, and divided at the hind part : crown of the head brown, 

 marked with fpots of a darker colour : hind part of the neck the 

 fame, but very deep : above the eye a line of white, palling 

 down on each fide the neck; accompanying this a black one, 

 which fprings from the bill, and pafies through the eye : fides of 

 the head, throat, fore part of the neck, breaft, belly, thighs, and 

 under tail coverts, white, with a few reddifh fpots on the fides of 

 the belly and bafe of the thighs : on the fore part of the wing 

 a yellow fpur : fcapulars pale brown : lefier wing coverts purplifh 

 chefnut ; the middle ones brown ; the greater black : the four 

 quills next the body are brown ; all the others green, margined 

 with black at the ends; and the outer one the whole length, on 

 the outer web : legs furnilhed with long toes as in all the 

 others ; colour of them blueifh afh. 

 Variety. One of thefe, which came under my infpection in a col-lection 



from Cayenne, was rather fmaller : had the upper parts much 



paler: 



